One of the many shitty things about being Slavic is that our bodies tend to have the capacity to break down and eliminate narcotic substances very fast. Hence the insane levels of alcoholism and drug addiction. (There are, of course, psychological causes, but the physiology makes it easy to accommodate those psychological causes.)

The result of this obnoxious peculiarity for me is that I process anaesthetic with lightning speed. They give me shots at the dentist’s and wait for 30 minutes for the anaesthetic to work. But in 30 minutes it all wears out and I need new shots. And so on.
It took 3 sets of shots for me today to explain how this works. Every time it’s the same story. I try to tell people but nobody believes me until we try and fail several times in a row. 
What’s really weird is that in Canada nobody seems to get this either even though First Nations people have the same peculiarity. 

My teeth hurt like Trump will in November, and some fellow on Facebook chose this moment to annoy me with sloppy arguments. Grrrrrr.

We’ve been hearing a version of this statement about Trump’s supporters for ages:

They want respect because they haven’t just lost economically, but also socially. When they turn on the TV, they see their way of life being mocked and made fun of as nothing but uneducated white trash.

With Trump, they are finding someone who gives them respect. He talks their language, addresses their concerns.

A retired doctor in Russia spent 4 months trying to revive her dead husband  in their apartment by sprinkling him with holy water. In those 4 months, she didn’t let her children visit because she didn’t want them to see the medical / religious experiment under way.

I was silent for hours because of my tooth work. But then my voice came back and I finally spoke to Klara. And she was so happy! I sang her a silly song I came up with about her, and her little face lit up with joy. This is the only human being who doesn’t detest my singing. (For now. I know that this won’t last.)

At the dentist’s, people are reclining in dental chair, clutching phones to their stomachs. I’m clutching my phone, too, because without it I feel like an amputee.

I once dropped my phone between the bed and the headboard at night. And I couldn’t fall asleep because it was like my arm had been torn out and thrown under the bed. I had to get up and do weird acrobatic things in the middle of the night to get my phone. 

People can easily measure how much I’m enjoying their company by how often my phone makes an appearance in the conversation. 

I relied on the idea expressed by the great psychoanalyst of infancy Donald Winnicott that (to paraphrase) a wounded Mommy is better than no Mommy and went to fetch Klara straight from the dentist where I had 2 wisdom teeth extracted.

So now we are lying here, both unable to talk, toothless, and not good with solid foods. 

For my sins, the workers at the day care are called Jennifer, Jenni, Jessica, Jessica and Jackie. The chance of me remembering who is who are negligible. I stare at photos with names immediately before going in and. . . nothing. It’s not working. 

These are great workers, I like all of them, but I can’t do all the Js. 

Sadly, the BLM movement has been hijacked by self-promoting idiots and has degenerated into sheer ridiculousness. Once you start equating the murders of innocent unarmed teenagers with entirely legitimate police action against gun-brandishing child abusers like Korryn Gaines, you lose all legitimacy. And the same goes for the Milwaukee debacle. 

And I absolutely insist that the movement started out being about something else entirely and aiming to do some really important things. 

Anybody who wants to chirp that they knew from the start it wouldn’t work out, please go stuff yourself. I’m being sad here. And hey, people failed but at least they tried to do something. That’s better than just sitting there and crowing “I told you so.”

People, turn on the TVs now. Trump is making an appeal for African-American votes, and it’s the funniest thing in the world. We are collapsing over here.